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TIL The city of Chattanooga, TN built a publicly funded ISP with speeds of 1000mbps for $70/mo.

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0daj5 TIL that only 3 weeks after their wedding, Oscar-winning actor Gig Young [who had starred in 'Rear Window' and 'The shoot horses, don't they', Etc.] murdered his wife (who was half his age), before committing suicide himself (1978).
Ovd4 TIL that although homosexuality is punishable by death in Iran, transexuality is nevertheless fully legal and the Iranian government regularly funds gender reassignment surgeries. Iran carries out more gender change operations than any country in the world besides Thailand.
R5oe9 TIL The Confederation Bridge, the longest ice-covered water crossing bridge in the world spans a 12.9 km
QJnWe TIL that our body odor could change because we're stuck at home ! Our smells come from the microbes living on our skin, and since we only have a few other people to swap microbes with, we're going to start smelling like the people we're cooped up with—making us smellier if they have smellier microbe
X096r TIL that in the 19th century people thought that the left side of the brain was masculine and the right side feminine. "The right side of the brain was seen as the inferior and thought to be prominent in women, savages, children, criminals, and the insane."